I got a little surprise when I came home today. I couldn't wait to unbox this thing and get started. It literally look me five minutes to set up. Open box. Plug network connector in. Download software. Turn unit on. Wait for firmware update (less than a minute). Restart. Yahoo!

FYI, Avermetrics is a local outfit (even more reason for me to support them) with some dudes from AP, M-Audio, Avid, etc. It's not cheap at $3k from Amazon, but from what I've see so far, very well worth it.

The hardest part was figuring out that the SPDIF coax output was indicated as SPDIF B in the software.

Check out the Modi2u measurement. So clean and so immune to environmental fuckery! This is going to make measurements so much easier than with the QA400. No USB crap. The AverLAB is controlled via Ethernet. I love the dBc button that just auto aligns 0db output from the DAC with the 0db line on the plot.

Look at those results below. I can now go neener neener neener to the nubs who used to have better tools than me! (BTW, it's the man, not the machine, but a good machine certainly makes things easier).

I'm sure there is a lot more that this thing can do that I have not even tapped. To be continued...

Could we get a more zoomed in view of the linearity results, with the line going horizontally instead of diagonally, zoomed in for something like a +/- 6dB amplitude axis, down to somewhere between -100 and -120dB?

I need to know if there are subtle variations that might make the DAC trashcan-worthy despite me enjoying it thoroughly subjectively.

"What the heck are you gonna do if you're on a picnic and have an ice cream, and the ants crawl on the ice cream? What are you gonna do? You're gonna eat the ants, because it's made out of protein. For your health!" - Dr. Steve Brule

Further evidence that Nwavguy Jr is either incompetent or has ulterior motives. Glad to see Marvey with such a capable new instrument. Hopefully this new setup can serve as something of a deterrent against would-be e-peeners. Too often lately we've seen people bork measurements and then hold their own idiocy against manufacturers.

In my opinion, based on limited experience, and to my particular taste